I think tone gives birth to the story.

Most of them were murderers. But when I went there to talk, they were the nicest people. I did a reading. I said, "Thank you," and then they said to me, "Could you talk some more?" And I said, "Why?" and they answered, "Most of us are in solitary confinement, so the moment you finish talking, they take us back to our cells. We like hanging out here together."

I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.

What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words are biblical, one word is Russian, and one word is Yiddish. This kind of connection between very high language and very low language is very natural, people use it all the time.

Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined.

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.